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The Pegasus drone launching from its catapult in Queensland

Pegasus, a 16-foot-wide drone built by three Australian companies, flew for almost 2 hours over Queensland on a single lithium-sulfur battery pack, and its makers now expect missions of 5 to 8 hours

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October 14, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Lionfish resting on an Early Bronze Age amphora at the Kekova wreck, which archaeologists call the oldest known shipwreck, as a diver works a suction hose behind it

Divers off Turkey’s Kekova Island found a shipwreck that archaeologists date to 4,400 to 4,700 years ago and call the oldest known shipwreck, and some of its jars still hold a glossy residue

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October 14, 2026 at 8:23 AM
The three masts of the SS Richard Montgomery wreck rising from the Thames Estuary off Sheerness at low tide, with a danger sign warning of unexploded ammunition

The SS Richard Montgomery, a U.S. Liberty ship that sank off Sheerness in 1944, still holds about 1,400 tons of explosives, and salvors have cut away the three masts that marked it for 82 years

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October 14, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Fossil skeleton of the four-winged dinosaur Norellraptor barsboldi with close-up panels

A farmer in China’s Liaoning province found a four-winged dinosaur whose lineage evolved 57 bird-like traits in a different order than birds did, a sign its flight gear was built independently

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October 14, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Plasticoral fragment at the bottom of a beach bonfire on Sosu Beach, Okinawa

Okinawa researchers found plastic fused to coral rubble in five pieces from three beaches, and the melted polymers had seeped into the coral’s pores so completely that the team named a new pollutant, plasticoral

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October 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Container ship Tangier Maersk docked at the Port of Mobile in Alabama

Maersk fueled the 9,016-TEU Tangier Maersk with 100 percent corn ethanol in America’s first ethanol bunkering of a deep-sea container ship, as a national lab says today’s methanol-ready fleet could burn 2 billion gallons yearly

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October 13, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Mastcam-Z panorama of the Margin Unit on the inner edge of Jezero Crater on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover studied more than 185 rock targets along the inner rim of Jezero Crater and found they met water at least three times, the last as hot fluid that left fluorite veins

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October 13, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Artist's impression of a young star surrounded by a dusty protoplanetary disk

University of New Mexico scientists turned up to 70 percent of the iron oxide in dry, melted basalt into iron and water within 3 hours, a hint that Earth’s water may have formed this way

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October 12, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Lake Piva in Montenegro surrounded by mountains

Montenegro’s Lake Piva dropped about 98 feet in a drought, exposing houses and a mill from old Plužine, a town flooded 51 years ago, and its chronicler says he still dreams of his drowned home

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October 12, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Strangler fig roots growing over the stone galleries of Ta Prohm temple in Cambodia

Cambodia’s Ta Prohm temple, founded in 1186 and seen in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, was left to the jungle on purpose, and restorers have said its giant trees crack the walls while holding them up

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October 12, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Landsat image of Anak Krakatau volcano on September 5, 2026

Anak Krakatau eruption ran nonstop for 25 hours in September and sent lava down the island’s western flanks, and a plant expert says eruptions reset the ecosystem so life rebuilds from microbes and moss

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October 11, 2026 at 6:29 PM
NASA concept illustration of a lunar base at the Moon's south pole

Two Harvard and Smithsonian astrophysicists ran the numbers on water on the Moon and found a million-person city would drain 1 billion tons of ice in about a century, even recycling 98 percent

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October 11, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Astronaut James van Hoften holds the bee enclosure module full of honeybees aboard the space shuttle Challenger

A Tennessee student’s experiment put 3,400 honeybees aboard NASA’s Challenger in 1984, and within a week the bees in space built about 30 square inches of comb whose cells no longer tilted the same way

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October 11, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Aerial view of excavated stone foundations of a three-room complex at ancient Mieza in northern Greece

Archaeologists in northern Greece digging the royal gymnasium believed to be where Aristotle taught Alexander found two mosaic-floored banquet halls built for 20 couches, and their craftsmanship echoes the royal palace of Aigai

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October 11, 2026 at 6:31 AM
A large trevally and a school of small fish swimming over sand at the Dunsborough artificial reef

Two artificial reefs off Western Australia grew from a dozen fish species to over 60

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October 10, 2026 at 5:02 PM
A Ganges river dolphin surfacing in brown river water

About 20 Ganges river dolphins survive in a Bangladesh river too polluted for native fish

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October 10, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Airbus A350F freighter test aircraft taking off on its first flight

Airbus A350F freighter completes its maiden flight and begins 400-hour test campaign

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October 10, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Aerial view of the Ultium Cells battery plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee

GM and LG will mass-produce LMR battery cells in Tennessee and add 500 jobs

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October 9, 2026 at 6:33 PM
A large seawater heat pump being lowered into the Maskinrummet building in Aarhus by workers

Aarhus in Denmark switched on six seawater heat pumps that pull up to 317,000 gallons of bay water an hour to warm about 1,900 homes, and eight more are coming to help replace wood pellets

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October 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Laguna Colorada in Bolivia seen from the International Space Station, with red-orange water and white mineral deposits

Laguna Colorada looks blue and brown in a new ESA satellite image, and a 2026 study found the red Bolivian lake carries 3,157 milligrams of lithium per liter where James’s flamingos breed

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October 8, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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